i think the most annoying thing about this whole discourse is that people refuse to judge threads by the standard of any other fedi instance
like if a mastodon instance got set up and federated right now and it allowed the shit threads allowed it'd be widely defederated IMMEDIATELY
there are accounts literally CALLING FOR THE DEATHS OF QUEER PEOPLE on there right fucking now
the only reason people are even willing to give them a chance is because it's a big corpo, but that should only be reason to give them less of one lmao. especially considering meta's history in particular
don't let them lower the bar for moderation standards here
At #FediForum, @n00q discussed a Federated music service for #BandCamp refugees. After a few days of drawing up requirements and specs, and a couple days of code, something interesting is taking shape.
Here's a too-fast-tour of a hypothetical album page built with #Emissary. Custom skins, uploads, and transcoding music is still TBD, but so far this feels like magic.
Bands' profiles will be native citizens of the Fediverse to like, share, and comment. Excited yet?
We would like to hear more from traditionally underrepresented and marginalized Fedizens at the next #FediForum.
We asked FediForum participants, and they most mention LGBTQIA+ and black communities, people with disabilities, as well as voices from outside the usual rich western countries whose residents tend to dominate tech-related events.
Can you help us reach out further than we can on our own? We'd appreciate introductions.
If you couldn't make it to FediForum, but would like to know what was discussed, these notes are for you.
And if you came to FediForum but there were too many interesting parallel sessions and you couldn't go to all that interested you, they are for you, too.
Looking forward to rapid learning, passionate debate and creating new momentum for the next steps forward for the Fediverse, just like we did at our first event in March.
@steve has published his #ActivityPub#test suite. He says it's "proof of concept" but I think it's a bit more. I very much like his structure with a "Server Abstract Layer".
Maybe we can talk him into doing a session at #FediForum about it?
Takeaways from today’s #FediForum thoughts, although my brain is filled with all kinds of tangents right now:
Onboarding new devs sucks. There’s way too many assumptions of what developers are supposed to know before they write a single line of code. There’s cultural hostility towards things people barely take the time to learn about or understand. There’s not really much of a welcoming committee for new devs. Sash’s experience definitely came up here.
If anybody ever asks you: why should anybody care about a decentralized Twitter? Point them to these videos, because there's so much innovation there that goes miles beyond just microblogging, and it's still early days.
Thanks to all the innovators out there, and thanks to the developers who came to FediForum to show off their creations in these demos.
One of the sessions yesterday at the #FediForum focused on CSAM, quite a tough topic.
If you host your own instance, even if it's just YOU on that instance, you need to read this and consider taking action to protect yourself and your moderation team.
Kudos to @thisismissem and @iftas for exploring new ways to manage this without scarring moderators for life.
Of course, we had @cubicgarden doing an excellent Q&A on the BBC's Mastodon server at the last FediForum. I wonder whether we could somehow get a whole bunch of news organizations into the same (virtual) room at the next #FediForum in March, and figure out together what it will take to get broader adoption.
The discussion at #FediForum today is really re-invigorating to me. All of a sudden conversations that we, had back 15 years ago (yes!) and that died on the vine when the big platforms took over, are back and hot!
Many of the same people, older and wiser :-) and with a renewed sense of urgency, too.
This time it might actually happen, because the general tech trends away from big platforms, and new regulatory requirements. Very exciting!
Found my way into a great #FediForum discussion on implementing the ability to create private groups, and it startled me how emphatically a few folks were puzzled why this would be desired. One person repeatedly characterized private groups as "hiding from the public square". It feels like issues of harassment (sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) are talked about with such urgency (at least in my circles?) - I can't be the only hearing that? The public sphere isn't safe for everyone.
@andypiper (with a little bit of help from @J12t) ran a session about the Fediverse Developer Network at #FediForum this week. There were about 25 people in the session, so there's quite some interest!
Slides and notes will be up on the fediforum.org site shortly.
The notes and accounts from the FediForum in late September suggest that some of "the people who move the fediverse forward", as the conference promotes itself as platforming, are also acutely interested in moving forward the agenda of Meta.
The forum's notes tell the tale. Though a number of topics, including many of genuine benefit, were touched upon, digging through the sessions turns up a path of breadcrumbs that leads straight back to Palo Alto.